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dc.contributor.authorSabhapandit, Sanjib-
dc.contributor.authorBena, Ioana-
dc.contributor.authorMajumdar, Satya N.-
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-24T03:46:29Z-
dc.date.available2012-05-24T03:46:29Z-
dc.date.issued2008-08-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Statistical Mechanics, 2008, 05012en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/4522-
dc.descriptionRestricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)en
dc.description.abstractWe consider a Jepsen gas of N hard-point particles undergoing free expansion on a line, starting from random initial positions of the particles having random initial velocities. The particles undergo binary elastic collisions upon contact and move freely in-between collisions. After a certain ordering time To, the system reaches a 'fan' state where all the velocities are completely ordered from left to right in an increasing fashion and there is no further collision. We compute analytically the distributions of (i) the total number of collisions and (ii) the ordering time To. We show that several features of these distributions are universal.en
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dc.publisherIOP Publishing Ltden
dc.relation.urihttp://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1866en
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2008/05/P05012en
dc.relation.urihttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008JSMTE..05..012Sen
dc.rights2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.en
dc.titleStatistics of the total number of collisions and the ordering time in a freely expanding hard-point gasen
dc.typeArticleen
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